Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Washington saw Vol. I, No. 1 of a new newspaper called the Capitol Daily. In clear and careful detail, the tabloid-size sheet told of legislative doings in the upper & lower Houses of Congress. "What the Senate Did Yesterday" and ''What the House Did Yesterday," were boxed heads on Page One. Inside the Capitol Daily, proposed legislation was tabulated, smaller Congressional stories ran under one-column heads...
Idea back of the Capitol Daily is to make it a sort of Congressman's trade-paper in which lobbyists will insert paid advertising to catch the legislative eye. Taxpayers, too, would have an interest in knowing, day by day, exactly what their elected representatives were doing in Washington's halls. Publisher with this notion was brisk young Henry Hayes ("Hank") Stansbury Jr., onetime New York American reporter and Paris correspondent for Universal Service. Subscription price: $15 for six months, free to Senators and Representatives. Competition in the field of specialized legislative reporting is David Lawrence...
...editor the Capitol Daily has a thorough professional in Sidney Whipple, Dartmouth graduate and United Press's expert on the Lindbergh kidnapping...
Through cheering crowds Victor Roosevelt drove to the Capitol to start his mopping up. At the side door of the House wing, he shed his silk topper, his dark overcoat and revealed himself in his new uniform, a handsome ash-grey cutaway with trousers to match. The White House secretariat-Son James, Stephen Early, Marvin Mclntyre-racked their toppers in a row on the trunk behind the Presidential tonneau. and the official party entered the Capitol...
That his conscience bothered him for using it was apparent when 1,000 of the students came slipping and sliding and shouting down the hill to the Capitol, interrupted him in press conference, made him face them in the Assembly Chamber...